IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Google + and Google Profiles

There’s almost nothing worse than receiving a comment from someone whose blog you can’t find, so you can return the favor. Since Google launched its Google + feature, this happens quite a lot to me, especially since a lot of blogger profiles switched to Google + pages.

Google +

Google + is a lot like Facebook. It’s the status room, where you share what’s on your mind, interesting links (yours and others), and photos etc. It’s also the chat room, where you can engage in conversations with people.

It’s easy to link individual blog posts there, but this is not the place to permanently link your blogs, so people know where to find you, especially if you’re sharing other links from all over the web, and updating your status from time to time.

Google Profiles

Google Profiles are where you share permanent information – everything from your birthday, marital status, education history and permanent links to your blogs, websites, what have you.

People get to your Google Profile by clicking on your Google +. Once on your Google +, they have the option to click on your “About” section, which is where your blog links and other information is shared.

So be sure and fill out your Google Profile, complete with all your blog links, so people can easily find your blog, and thus be able to comment on it! You never know, it might be you who needs to return the favor if they do.

Thank you for visiting and commenting on A – Z Blog today! We look forward to seeing you again real soon!

I signed up for google plus but no one really uses it, not like FB, so I removed everything I could from mine. Plus one of my blog comments during A-Z got automatically published to my Google plus somehow and my cyberstalker found it and came after me with a vitriolic diatribe on what a loser I am. So I had to get rid of everything on google plus.

Sorry. I'm one of those bloggers people struggle to find. I don't know how to fix it. Usually I get around it if the comments ID feature allows me to post my name and web address, but when the ID requires you to be logged onto Google or open ID, it's a problem.

Do you mean to disable your blog listing from your G+ account? If so, click on your avatar in the upper right corner while in Google+. Click Account. Then click Edit Profile. Scroll down the page to the section you want, probably Links. Near the bottom of that box marked Links is an Edit link. Click Edit. This is where you will delete the links you don't want to appear on your G+ profile. Click Save when you're done.